{"id":2451019,"date":"2019-11-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=315900"},"modified":"2019-11-13T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T12:00:00","slug":"stay-tuneds-owners-reflect-on-their-snowmass-success-christy-sports-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/stay-tuneds-owners-reflect-on-their-snowmass-success-christy-sports-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Tuned\u2019s owners reflect on their Snowmass success, Christy Sports acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark and Linda Chapdelaine, longtime owners of Stay Tuned Ski & Sports, stand for a photo near the Snowmass Ski Area map on Nov. 11 The couple recently sold their four Snowmass stores to Christy Sports.<\/strong>
Maddie Vincent\/Snowmass Sun<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Christy Sports announced earlier this month it is acquiring all four Stay Tuned Ski & Sports locations in Snowmass Village.<\/p>\n

Longtime Stay Tuned winter sports shop owners Mark and Linda Chapdelaine said the transition has been in the works, and the couple hopes it will help them slow down their lifestyle a bit and spend more time with their kids. But it comes as bittersweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of the hardest decisions I\u2019ve ever made,\u201d Mark said after the Nov. 7 announcement. \u201cBut we fully support Christy\u2019s and know they will give the community the type of service we\u2019ve aspired to.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a recent afternoon, Mark and Linda reflected on the past 13 years owning and operating multiple Stay Tuned locations in the village.<\/p>\n

Mark, a Santa Rosa, California, native and Linda, who\u2019s from Seattle, moved to the Snowmass area separately in the late 1990s to be ski bums, they said. The now-married couple met at a Thursday night concert, and decided to purchase the original Stay Tuned location on Wood Road, which had been there over a decade prior, to operate during the 2006 winter season.<\/p>\n

Since then, the Chapdelaines have opened three more winter sports rental and repair locations<\/a> around Snowmass and worked to create a family-like network of high-quality service.<\/p>\n

Both have worked in shops since they were young adults and said it\u2019s the ski and snowboard culture that has kept them there for so long.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the barber shop of the mountains,\u201d Mark said of ski shops in general. \u201cWe were the kind of ski shop that had mid-season parties, end-of-season parties, and would invite our employees on family vacations with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

As they reminisced, Mark and Linda acknowledged the hard work that went into running their local winter sports shops but were humble about their success.<\/p>\n

The couple said their shop network could not have existed without their strong, longtime \u201ccore\u201d of employees, some of whom plan to continue working in the newly branded Christy Sports shops.<\/p>\n

Christy Sports, a Lakewood-based winter sports retailer with a Snowmass location on the mall, has a similar family-driven philosophy, the Chapdelaines said. Both shops have helped out each other over the years, and the Chapdelaines said they feel a little more at ease knowing Stay Tuned is transitioning to ownership with similar family-driven values and practices.<\/p>\n

According to the Christy Sports\u2019 announcement, the acquisition and rebranding of the Stay Tuned locations is a part of Christy\u2019s growth plan and desire to expand across the region, especially in Snowmass.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe immediately recognized the great business and culture which Stay Tuned Ski Rentals has cultivated over the years and how closely it vice president with ours,\u201d Dan Fox, Christy Sports VP of operations, said in the news release. \u201cWe are excited to welcome them to our family and look forward to growing Christy Sports in Snowmass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moving forward, the Chapdelaines said they do not plan to work in the new Christy Sports locations but are willing to serve as resources for the new stores if needed.<\/p>\n

Mark plans to focus more on his landscaping company, MC Landscape & Snowplow; Linda hopes to become more involved in their daughters\u2019 mogul skiing competitions; and both aim to spend more time as a family.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know the saying \u2018Do what you love and the money will follow?\u2019 I\u2019d like to not say that, but that\u2019s how it turned out,\u201d Mark said. \u201cWe feel very lucky to have accomplished what we did and grateful for the opportunities we got.\u201d<\/p>\n

mvincent@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark and Linda Chapdelaine, longtime owners of Stay Tuned Ski & Sports, stand for a photo near the Snowmass Ski Area map on Nov. 11 The couple recently sold their four Snowmass stores to Christy Sports.Maddie Vincent\/Snowmass Sun Christy Sports announced earlier this month it is acquiring all four Stay Tuned Ski & Sports locations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 06:40:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}